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XKCD's "Fundamental Forces" isn't funny, it's sad. Can you do better? : askscience. Your Mass is NOT from Higgs Boson. Where does the Standard Model of physics come from? How To Make a Quantum Bit. Corpore Metal's Delusions of Grandeur #1: Quantum Entanglement. What stops you getting, say, 10 of these entangled particles?

Corpore Metal's Delusions of Grandeur #1: Quantum Entanglement

Then if all ten were jiggled at the same time in the same way, surely you could be pretty certain that it was the other person doing it, rather than just random jostling? Nope. Because uncertainty screws that up too. How do you know that when you look in the ten boxes that it's just random chance that they are all at spin -2? Quantum Levitation.